13 November 2012

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 12/13NOV2012

Famous Mars Meteorite's 'Fossils': What Arctic Rocks Can Tell UsSpace.comIn 1996, a research group led by Dave McKay of NASA's Johnson Space Center claimed to have found evidence of fossilized life in a Mars meteorite known as Allan Hills 84001. Not only did the shapes look like bacteria, but a form of magnetite (iron oxide ...

2012 Taurid meteor shower may produce fireballsiTWireThe Earth will be passing through meteors left over from the Comet Encke during November 2012, what we humans call the Taurid meteor shower. Although we'll probably only see a few of them per hour, past experiences have seen some of them turn into ...

Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks This WeekSpace.comWhile the Leonid meteor shower has a history of putting on stupendous displays, this year will not be one of them; at best 10 to 15 meteors per hour may be seen. This year is a bit unusual in that the Leonids are expected to show two peaks of activity ...

Taurid Meteor Shower Peaking Tonight, November 12, 2012PlanetSave.comThe best time to view the meteor shower is just after midnight (right now, on the west coast), but they should remain visible for the next few nights. The North Taurids are a relatively slow meteorshower, about 10 meteors per hour on a dark night, but ...

Five Things: No Trash Delay This WeekPatch.comTHIS DAY IN HISTORY: Andrew Ellicott Douglass, an early American astronomer born in Vermont, witnesses the Leonids meteor shower from a ship off the Florida Keys. Douglass, who later became an assistant to the famous astronomer Percival Lowell, ...

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